Losses in the Gaza approximately 435,000,000 dollars us

Israel to attack Gaza Strip since 27 December 2008 have caused material losses of Rp 5,235 trillion. This is a very big loss for the 1.4 million Gaza Strip. This new losses from destruction of infrastructure due to ongoing attacks by the military of Israel. 

The number of victims killed on Saturday to reach 1,201 people, including 410 children. The number of injury victims has reached 5,300 people and as many as 1,630 of them are children, according to the Ministry of health records Gaza Strip. Most of the residents of the desert because of the access for humanitarian assistance dihambat Israel. 

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, in the Gaza Strip Saturday, announced that 4000 was the average residential home with land, as well as 48 government buildings Hamas, the Gaza Strip. Losses also involve destruction of infrastructure, 30 police office and 20 mosques. 

Physical damage to the roads, schools, electricity relay network, and water channels were destroyed to make life in the Gaza Strip, as it is in hell. Around 14 percent of the total buildings in the Gaza Strip is no longer used. 

Residents tired 

For that, the Arab leaders will hold summit meeting in Kuwait on January 19-20. The European Union participated in reconstruction aid promised for the Gaza Strip. 

Residents in the Gaza Strip have been feeling tired physically and psychological. Boom bomb explosion insistently cause of difficult to sleep. Residents must also tired because it moved the search for a place safe from attacks, a fact also attacked, such as schools of the United Nations. 

Show a strong desire that Israel ends aggression immediately, somehow that's how people can be comfortable while goods. "We do not hirau how, our long ceasefire. We want the children back to school and can sleep comfortably, "said Ali Hassan (34), father of five children, who now live in the house of his brother in the Gaza Strip. 

"Simply, akhirilah," said Ali, who bertutur how he should be moved from the house where the family lived in the northern Gaza Strip to the middle to avoid the brutal bombardment. "Ear we have exploded as the ongoing boom heard. We are lucky to live, "he said. 

However, until Saturday, Israel still continues to tackle Gaza Strip, including the city of Rafah, the border town in Gaza Strip-Egypt. 

Aziz, a taxi driver, said does not believe will be lasting ceasefire. "However, the cease-fire moment is enough to help us to draw breath a while," he said. 

Old workers in the company in the Gaza Strip, also want dihentikannya attack Israel. Lama also ask Hamas to stop rocket fire away, which since 2001 has been as many as 8000 fruit coast region of Israel. Rocket attacks into this one triggered a military aggression of Israel. 

On a Saturday news appears intent on stopping attacks on Israel unilaterally. According to an Israeli official, who did not want his name mentioned, there is a matter of intention cessation of attacks even though no agreement with Hamas party. 

"Termination of attacks are still awaiting cabinet approval," said the Israeli officials. 

"There is no agreement with Hamas, but stopped for the planned attack. However, if Hamas continues to launch rocket, Israel has the right to strike, "said the official. 

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak of Israel has reached the mission in the Gaza Strip. 

Head of Hamas representative in Lebanon Osama Hamdan, said the group continues to fight if Israel does not immediately leave the Gaza Strip. Hamas demands Israel not only stop the attacks, but must also be back from the Gaza Strip. Hamas also demanded all the doors open Gaza Strip border. 

Israel is not clear why such a sudden you want to stop the attacks. Various news agency said, it aims to provide termination of tranquility in the geopolitics appointment Barack Obama as U.S. President on 20 January. 

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said, there is cessation of attacks despite the desire without the approval with Hamas. 

Egypt urges 

Secretly, the U.S. and Israel gave birth to a memo requesting that Egypt stop the smuggling of weapons to the Gaza Strip via Egypt. Memo is organized on Friday in Washington. 

Menlu Egypt Ahmed Aboul Gheit in Cairo on Saturday, said, Egypt is not bound by the Treaty that the U.S.-Israel. "We do not have a problem that commitment," said Aboul Gheit. 

Israel said Hamas uses tunnels in the Gaza Strip border-Egypt to smuggle weapons. Menlu Israel, said the memo was part of a series of efforts to make Egypt stop the smuggling of weapons. 

Aboul Gheit said, not Hamas, but Israel is a problem. "Israel and the power of drunken violence," he said. 

The statement that emerged after Aboul Gheit met Menlu Czech Karel Schwarzenberg representing the European Union. Czech now get a turn to be President of the European Union. 

Trio Europe-UK, France and Germany, have offered sending warship to the Middle East. The goal, to monitor arms smuggling to Gaza Strip via Egypt. 

"We have to give a quote," the statement from the office of the Prime Minister of UK Gordon Brown. 

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has also invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and French President Nicholas Sarkozy to attend the summit meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, Sunday (18 / 1). UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Spanish PM José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero attended to discuss the ceasefire. (Reuters / AP / AFP / MON) 



Source: Kompas